Chuhak v. Chicago Transit Authority

This is an appeal from a judgment entered against the plaintiff, Thomas S. Chuhak, administrator of the estate of Mildred Claire Lyle, 1 in an action for injuries Lyle allegedly sustained when she stepped from a bus operated by the defendant Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and into a pothole located in a street of the defendant city of Chicago (city). Plaintiff contends that the trial court erred in excluding from evidence, (a) the hospital case report of the investigating-reporting officer, (b) the investigating-reporting officers’ testimony of their observations of a pothole at the location…